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If you’re new to Yorkshire see what it has to offer on our Introduction page. We have now added more than 1,000 places to our A to Y Gazetteer of Yorkshire. We've listed the cities and towns and now many of the villages, with links to pages providing more information or to pinpoint villages on our unique Yorkshire map. The Home button links you to many other parts of Yorkshire.guide And look below for our frequently updated page with some of our newest items about Yorkshire issues and events in more detail .......
Yorkshire joins a nation in remembrance
And there are memorials also to those from further afield whose battle was brought to an early end on Yorkshire soil.
As in other parts of the UK, many hundreds of communities across the Yorkshire region observe Remembrance Sunday (November 9), remembering those who made the ultimate sacrifice as wreaths of poppies are placed at the many memorials and services of remembrance are held in local parishes.
Tuesday (November 11) is Armistice Day when two minutes silence is observed at the 11th hour, of the 11th day of the 11th month. This commemorates the time, in France, in 1918 when the fighting of The Great War (later known as World War I) was expected to stop after the signing of an armistice a few hours earlier.
Find out more about this year's Poppy Appeal at the 
The Royal British Legion
The Royal British Legion 
Bradford is lit for two-night city centre show
BD: is Lit will bring light and sound to the city centre streets on Friday and Saturday evenings (November 7-8). Light artists will have displays in Norfolk Gardens, City Park and at various other locations around the city centre. Bradford's Victorian City Hall will host Worstedopolis a huge display of textile design projected on to the imposing Venetian-Gothic-style architecture.
Find out more about events taking place at the official Bradford 2025 - UK City of Culture website.
Bradford 2025 - UK City of Culture Look back at the opening show at this Bradford City of Culture page.
Bradford
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York Guy was gunpowder plotter
If you've been celebrating Bonfire Night, or Guy Fawkes Night, or have postponed your celebration to this weekend, you might like to remember the Yorkshire roots of the best-known of the terrorist conspirators who in 1605 plotted to blow up King James I as he attended the state opening of Parliament.
Bonfire Night celebrates the thwarting of the plot on the night before the planned explosion on November 5.
After the plot was discovered, King James I passed an Act of Parliament in 1605 making November 5 a date of public thanksgiving to God. It became a date in church calendars and remained a law until 1859. To this day, more than 400 years later, there is still celebration through annual bonfires and the setting off of fireworks.
A search found Guy Fawkes, who assumed the name John Johnson, guarding the gunpowder in a cellar under Parliament with a firework in his pocket to light it.
Guy was 35 and had long been converted to Catholicism by the time of the plot to kill King James I with the motive of ending oppression of Catholics.
Guy's birth and upbringing, however, had been in York, not far from York Minster. He was baptised on April 16, 1570 at St Michael le Belfry Church nearby.
Although Bonfire Night celebrations often involve burning an effigy of Guy on the bonfire, his actual death came when he was taken to the gallows at Westminster on January 31, 1606, sentenced as a traitor to being hung, drawn and quartered. It is reputed he broke his neck by jumping or falling at the gallows thus sparing himself the latter part of his sentence being carried out while he was still alive.
York
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York's garden ghosts have extended stay
Find out more about the trail at this Ghosts in the Gardens page at the York BID website.
Ghosts in the Gardens York
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Final week of literary festival in Sheffield
Off The Shelf Festival Of Words, now in its 34th year, provides a celebration of books, words and ideas bringing more than 60 author's talks, readings and other events to venues at the University of Sheffield and around the city.
Find out more at the Off The Shelf Festival Of Words website.
Off The Shelf Festival Of Words Sheffield
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Month of Hullarity
The Hull Comedy Festival has a big line-up of comedians from around the UK, comedy shows including 'Allo 'Allo and the festival's Hullarious Fringe. Many of the shows are at the city's Hull Truck Theatre with other events taking place at the Comedy Lounge, The Brain Jar, The Edge Hub, Jubilee Central and a pop-up space at the Fruit Market. Hull's laughable dates started before and extend after the official festival three weeks of November 1 - 23.
Hull
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Another weekend of rail work affects trains at York
Rail engineering work affects trains at York again this weekend (November 8-9) but this time only services south from the station.
There will be no trains between York and Leeds via Garforth, York and Wakefield, York and Moorthorpe, York and Doncaster and York and Selby.
Train services will run between Leeds and Hull, including a service from Leeds to Bridlington as a diversion of the service normally running from York.
Replacement buses will run between York and Leeds, York and Micklefield, York and Wakefield Kirkgate for trains to Manchester Piccadilly, York and Wakefield Westgate for trains via Doncaster on the East Coast Main Line and buses between York and Selby. There will also be a bus replacement between York and Moorthorpe for trains to Sheffield, although at most times bus to Leeds for trains to Sheffield offers the quickest alternative.
More about work on this line at the TransPennine Route Upgrade website.
TransPennine Route Upgrade Check details of your journey at the National Rail website.
National Rail 
Reservoirs recovering but leak-fixing continues and hosepipe ban remains
Figures from Yorkshire Water announced on November 6 put reservoir stocks at 60.6% after levels rose for eight weeks in a row. The figure is now around 15% below the average for this time of year.
Yorkshire Water now says it has repaired more than 13,000 leaks since the beginning of April this year.
Find out more at the Yorkshire Water website.
Yorkshire Water 
Marvellous museums
Museums
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